François Bourguignon

Prof. François Bourguignon is a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (France), Professor of Economics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and Editor of the World Bank Economic Review.

Born on May 22, 1945, Prof. Bourguignon studied at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et des Analyses Economique (ENSEA) and the University of Paris VI where he earned a postgraduate degree in Applied Mathematics (1973). He went on to earn a Ph.D. and the Merrit Brown Award for the best thesis at the University of Western Ontario in Canada (1975), and a Doctorate in Economics at the University of Orleans (1979).

Prof. Bourguignon has a distinguished careers in university teaching and research. His major fields of specialization are Income Distribution and Inequalities, the Economics of Development, and Taxation. He has been Assistant Professor at the Universities of Chile (1968-70) and Toronto (1975-1977), and a Researcher at the OECD Development Center (1971-1972) and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris (1978-1984). Universities at which he has served as Visiting Professor include Concordia University (1979), Birkbeck College (1984), Geneva (1989-1990) and Bocconi (1992-1995).

Prof. Bourguignon has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, the OECD, the European Commission and the International Labor Organization. He was made Fellow of the Econometrics Society in 1985 and President of the European Society for Population Economics in 1995. A recipient of the "El Fasi" Award for achievement in development economics, he has also been awarded bronze and silver medals by the CNRS (1984 and 1997).

Prof. Bourguignon's published work includes several books, in particular the 'Handbook of Income Distribution' recently co-edited with A. Atkinson. He has contributed numerous articles to economic journals including the Journal of Economic Theory, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Development Economics and many others.